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Boyd’s Bible Dictionary
:
(the plague). In
Hebrew
, all distempers and calamities (
Ex. 9:14; 11:1
14
For I will at this time send all my plagues upon thine heart, and upon thy servants, and upon thy people; that thou mayest know that there is none like me in all the earth. (Exodus 9:14)
1
And the Lord said unto Moses, Yet will I bring one plague more upon Pharaoh, and upon Egypt; afterwards he will let you go hence: when he shall let you go, he shall surely thrust you out hence altogether. (Exodus 11:1)
;
1 Kings 8:37
37
If there be in the land famine, if there be pestilence, blasting, mildew, locust, or if there be caterpiller; if their enemy besiege them in the land of their cities; whatsoever plague, whatsoever sickness there be; (1 Kings 8:37)
).
Concise Bible Dictionary
:
This is often mentioned along with the
sword
and the
famine
as
punishment
from
God
upon His rebellious people. It is represented as being sent directly by God Himself. When
David
had numbered the people, the
Lord
sent a pestilence upon
Israel
, and there died 70,000 men (
2 Sam. 24:15-16
15
So the Lord sent a pestilence upon Israel from the morning even to the time appointed: and there died of the people from Dan even to Beer-sheba seventy thousand men.
16
And when the angel stretched out his hand upon Jerusalem to destroy it, the Lord repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed the people, It is enough: stay now thine hand. And the angel of the Lord was by the threshingplace of Araunah the Jebusite. (2 Samuel 24:15‑16)
).
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